Chamomile tea is an effective preventive against damping-off disease in seedlings. Using tea made from herbal flowers may sound like one of the stovetop tonics so-called gardening gurus brew up for ...

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the most observant person — there is plenty that gets past me. Because of this, I quickly realized that the crape myrtles are having a tough time with powdery ...

Q: I have a crape myrtle and every year it is covered in a whitish powder. I have been told it is powdery mildew but I don’t know how to control it. A: Powdery mildew is a plant disease caused by a ...

Winter wheat growers are set to benefit from a second sulphur-based fungicide this spring, with Adas trials showing how the product can offer good septoria control as part of a disease programme with ...

A new sulphur fungicide formulation and elicitor product could help fill the gap left by the withdrawal of multisite active chlorothalonil. Sulphur applications for disease control were commonplace in ...

It’s so disappointing to reach midsummer, having nurtured a vegetable for several months, only to find disease problems starting to appear. The first step toward control should always be disease ...